What Is Tiffany Trump, Future Lawyer, Trying to Tell Us?

Tiffany Trump attends the Taoray Wang show at New York Fashion Week in September 2018.

By Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images.

Tiffany Trump, a twinkle in her dad’s eye though she was born 24 years ago, is back in Washington. This summer, she partied with her mom, Marla Maples, in London, then she partied with my mom, Lindsay Lohan, in Mykonos, and now, she’s partying with books, law books, at Georgetown. (Unrelated: Donald Trumploves lawyers).

We know Trump, the younger, has been studying because she posted an excerpt from a book to her Instagram Stories, along with the hashtag #GTOWNLAW and a flashing icon of text that says, “Learn More.” Her text du jour is a best-seller on deal-making from the 80s. It’s not the The Art of the Deal. It’s Getting to Yes by Roger Fisher and William Ury, a book about how to achieve “mutually satisfying agreements,” or in other corporate speak, a “win-win.”

Underlined in her copy is this sentence: “Do not let your desire to be conciliatory stop you from doing justice to your problem.”

Underlined and highlighted is this one: “Attack the problem without blaming the people.”

And also: “Be personally supportive: Listen to them with respect, show them courtesy, express your appreciation for their time and effort, emphasize your concern with meeting their basic needs, and so on. Show them that you are attacking the problem, not them.”

As with all things from the house of Trump, these quotes read as a subliminal message to the American public, a sign that she is part of the resistance. It also reads like a subliminal message to the American public chastising them for their resistance to her president dad. But whether she’s making a point or not or whether she’s fully conscious of this or not, the philosophy of Getting to Yes is diametrically opposed to the Trump approach. His Art of the Deal approach is taken from the School of Dick Measuring, not mutual satisfaction. “You hear lots of people say that a great deal is when both sides win,” he once “wrote.” “That is a bunch of crap. In a great deal, you win—not the other side. You crush the opponent and come away with something better for yourself.”

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